Appearance / Description of Object(s)

upside-down V-shape of five bright white lights.

Size of Object(s)

relative size at first sight: 3ft actual size: maybe 100 yards or more

Description of Area / Surroundings

Rural area. Desert land, Interstate, Agriculture fields, Military Base and Airport nearby.

Full Description & Details

I was working my 3-11pm shift at a TV station. A few minutes past 11pm, I opened the door leading to the back parking lot to go to my car. I saw a row of bright white lights South East of the TV station. "Hmmm. They must have added street lights to Highway 95" I thought. They were awfully bright and were perfectly separated. I pulled out of the parking lot and drove that way to check it out since it was only a few blocks. They were not street lights. The were much higher than I had originally thought. "What are they?" I said to myself out loud. "Is it a crop duster? an airplane?" The military base shares a runway with the airport so I wondered if it was a plane but in all my years of living here, I'd never seen lights that big and bright on an airplane. I drove South on Pacific Ave trying to get a closer look but it appeared they were farther than I had thought. I decided to turn around and go back to work and see if the TV weatherman was still at work. He was a pilot and meteorologist and I was sure he could help me identify what it was. As I drove back North I'd look back over my shoulder to see where they were. I didn't get too far before they were gone. "Where are they?" I was talking to myself out loud "Where'd they go?" Just like that they were gone. I don't know if they faded or if they just dissappeared. I asked people about it the next day to but no one had seen anything. I shrugged it off as being some sort of military operation...even though there was no sound to go along with the lights.

A few YEARS later I was watching a show on UFO's. I sat up immediatley when the Phoenix Lights story came on. THAT WAS WHAT I SAW!! Same formation, same lights, everything! Except the time or the day was different. I knew I saw the lights at 11pm because I was leaving work but the phoenix stories all said it was around 8-10pm. I'm not positive about the day. I THINK I saw mine on a Friday not a Thursday (Calender shows March 13, 1997 was a Thursday). The newsroom was empty except for the weaterman who always worked late. The newscast ended at 10:35p so it's not liekly everyone would be gone by 11p unless it was a Friday.

I just saw the Phoenix lights story again on TLC. I'm writing today because the map on the show did not show any sigtings in Yuma. I want to let someone know that i saw the lights in Yuiam at 11pm.The lights I saw were in the South East sky. They can't be the same lights because it was a different time (and possibly he next day). Also the Phoenix lights story said they might be flairs dropped from a plane but the distance between the lights was exact and the lights appeared to rise not fall.

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?

If i knew i would not be writing today

Witness Background

education: Some College.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I've always believed there was a possibility they could exist. We can't be the only ones in this universe. I have thought that people who report seeing them are a bit loony but after seeing what i saw i know that ANYONE can have a "sighting". I am now more interested in UFO shows than before I saw the lights. I'm hoping the light can someday be exlained so I'll stop wondering what they were.

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